Cooper’s Horticultural Services LLC

06/05/2023

Made in the shade🌿

11/17/2022

Tree planting season 🌳

11/09/2022

Garden of the month! Proud to maintain this beautiful landscape🌸

11/03/2022

Recent new installation! Looking forward to watching it mature 🌞

06/11/2022

So happy to have gotten the opportunity to landscape this beautiful 1940s English Tudor Revival! Can't wait to see this landscape progress in the future!

06/07/2022

Tuscarora Tuesday! You know it's June when crape myrtles are in bloom🌳🌸

06/02/2022

Highly recommend Uptick Coreopsis!

Uptick Coreopsis have become a favorite in our RHAPSODY IN COLOR program. Longest blooming series of coreopis (tickseed) due to being able to flower under shorter days. Reliably perennial across he South. No "splitting apart" in the middle (we call that "canopy collapse disease"). Easy care, lower irrigation uses, love full sun, no dead-heading needed. Thanks to our friend Greg Cooper at Cooper’s Horticultural Services LLC for this image.

05/19/2022

The Beautiful days of May!

04/09/2022

Spring is In full swing!

04/09/2022

Excellent Article! Always enjoy adding Peggy Martin roses to a landscape 🌸

The Peggy Martin rose is a beloved treasure in Louisiana. Known for its resiliency, it survived two weeks submerged in saltwater, after Hurricane Katrina, in a New Orleans resident’s backyard, Mrs. Peggy Martin.

During 2005 when the devastating hurricane hit Louisiana, Peggy Martin was living in Plaquemines Parish in southeast part of Greater New Orleans. When Mrs. Martin returned to her home after the evacuation from the storm, she found only two surviving plants, one of which was a climbing rose that had been started from cuttings and was passed down to her.

William Welch, a horticulturist with Texas AgriLife Extension, was a guest of Martin before the hurricane hit. He was fond of the climbing, thornless rose and had gotten cuttings of it. After the hurricane, he wanted to do something to give back to the areas devastated by the storm and by doing something kind for Peggy.

Welch had received his bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture and both his master’s and doctoral degrees in extension education and horticulture from LSU. Touched by her loss and those of the Gulf South that had been affected by the storm, he propagated and sold the plant, naming it the “Peggy Martin” rose. He then used some of the profits that were collected and sent them to Garden Club of America Horticulture Restoration Fund for the historic gardens of the Gulf South that had been devastated by the hurricane.

Peggy Martin roses are a Southern favorite due to their ease of care, disease resistance and gorgeous, prolific pink blooms. Plants can be easily found at local retail nurseries and are a wonderful addition to home gardens. The climbing roses are often planted along fence lines and trellises and can grow 6 to 15 feet in height and width. They should be planted in full sun.

View more details on the Peggy Martin rose: https://tinyurl.com/kzsrzxm7

02/22/2022

Prepped and ready to roll into spring!🌞🍀